Okay, after three posts hip-deep in Unix geekery, let's have one steeped in knitting-geekery:

Currenly on the needles, I have Brooklyn Tweed's Girasole, a pretty round shawl named for the sunflower it resembles.

Now, I didn't know it was named "Sunflower" when I cast on in Berocco Ultra Alpaca, color 6269 "Cashel Blue", named for...cheese! The yarn, however, is colored like the blue bits in a bleu cheese, not actually like bleu cheese. Thus, it is colored something like:

...the dye lot I have is bluer than this shows up on screen. It's a dark, luminous blue with some medium-grey heather/halo effects.

It probably won't show up on my blue-gray leather couch all that well, but it will be lovely and cuddly and warm (a throw in which one cannot cuddle will not be much-loved, I ween).

BUT! It's called Sunflower, and one may execute either at worsted-weight for a blanket or at lace-to-fingering for a shawl.

I'd stopped making devotional shawls, but if a surprise Sunna falls into my lap, well, all righty then. I can work on it during my next summer festival in a wretchedly hot place. *grin*

The designer-recommended yarn is Jamieson's Spindrift--I would think that any of the first few of might do, but I'm more than passing fond of the heather, Scotch Broom.

This is available sort-of-locally, at Yarn Boutique in Lafayette, which comes highly recommended as a store by wolfs_daugher. They're open today--so I might wander on by...

There! Now, for real balance, I should post about something heathen. *nodnod*

-- Lorrie

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